Most of old-CBD areas in urban area was built spontaneously rather than intentionally. The public facilities such as road, open space, parking lot and sewage accordingly are insufficient in quantity and inadequate in quality. Also the buildings and structures are very dense and dilapidated in such areas.
This research performed questionnaire survey and statistically analyzed to seek the urban control policy of activation of old-CBD that can improve urban problems such as degradation and aging of the existing urban function of Gwangyang-eup. Then, the outcome is as follows.
First, as the contents of business for activation program of old-CBD is accompanied by legal procedure of urban control plan, it is in charge of adjusting specific guideline for business enforcement and inducement program and enforcement entity. Thus, it is required to establish and operate department dedicated to carry on business.
Second, as broad and general plans including improvement of residential environment is included in the business deemed necessary to activate old-CBD and recover the business circle, it is necessary to consider policy that heightens and embodies ordinance to convert administrative plan into business plan so as to acquire practical means for activation of old-CBD.
Third, considering the response of questionnaire that commercial function such as creating shopping mall and specialized street must be activated first to activate remote downtown, it is required to increase consumer's value of commercial circle and to develop the concept of commercial circle·so that large value than that of neighboring competitive commercial circle can be felt by reducing the economic, time and psychological cost spent to visit commercial circle for shopping.
Fourth, considering the opinion that the business which is widely used as means to recover commercial circle in old-CBD must activate conventional market to recover commercial circle and carry on residential environment improvement business, policy inducement is necessary to push forward redevelopment and reconstruction business that can improve the weak point such as aged building, inconvenient traffic and narrow parking lot.
Fifth, it is required to construct horizontal and network organization system by which public organ and local inhabitants can play role through mutual discussion so that the effect of business of old-CBD activation can be maximized from the stage of urban plan through constant policy of administrative agency and spontaneous participation of inhabitants.